SKELETON MAN FREE COMICS ONLINE

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Original Comic Page Destroyed

Skeleton Man Comics “tHIS doESn’t MAkE aNy sENSe?” An
insignificant skinless man wanders through a life nihilistic.
Following a failed romance this little protagonist tries to change
his life by forsaking all his worldly possessions and desires. He
gives up his belongings, his home and his career and leaves for the
countryside. However the escape is short lived as the voice of the
metropolis beckons telepathically as if a house from a haunted film.
Upon his return our anti-zero-hero takes up a job in (self)
destruction succumbing to all sorts of fruitless misadventures. A
prisoner of tobacco, insomnia, drugs, despair and impossible
infatuation our pitiless skeleton man watches life pass him by until
finally finding himself an elderly corpse blowing in the wind.

This cheerful series of comics was basically a mini-auto biography I kept in sketch books between the summer of 2003 and 2004. At that time I was a fairly nomadic street artist moving from couch to couch and selling sketches on the weekends. It was a difficult time for me but an extremely productive one as I constantly turned my despairing situation into humorous illustrations. I drew all of these strips while sitting in cafes, bars and on the streets of Toronto. Each week I published one segment as a photocopy zine which I would give away to any one interested.

The original drawings were all virtually destroyed in a heavy rainfall some time in the spring of 04. At that time I was hiding all my art in an alley way so I wouldn't have to carry it back and forth from Queen Street to the random places I was crashing on depending on the day. For the most part this was fine but you never really knew when a tarp would fall of for be removed so there was always a risk. Eventually business got more serious and I was able to rent a garage but those first few years were certainly sketchy. (Good times!) Below is a photo of me with some of the longer scroll panels working the sidewalks in down town Toronto.